Chapter X: Quietude

#	Sanskrit Original	Translation by Bart Marshall	Translation by John Richards	Translation by Swami Nityaswarupananda
10.1	अष्टावक्र उवाच। विहाय वैरिणं काममर्थं चानर्थसङ्कुलम्। धर्ममप्येतयोर्हेतुं सर्वत्रानादरं कुरु॥	Ashtavakra said: Give up desire, which is the enemy. Give up prosperity, which is born of mischief and good works. Be indifferent.	Ashtavakra: Abandoning desire, the enemy, along with gain, itself so full of loss, and the good deeds which are the cause of the other two - practice indifference to everything.	Ashtavakra said: Be indifferent to everything having given up Kama (desire) the enemy, Artha (worldly prosperity) which is attended with mischief as well as Dharma (good works) which is the cause of these two.
10.2	स्वप्नेन्द्रजालवत् पश्य दिनानि त्रीणि पञ्च वा। मित्रक्षेत्रधनागारदारदायादिसम्पदः॥	Look upon friends, lands, wealth, houses, wives, gifts - and all apparent good fortune - as a passing show, as a dream lasting three to five days.	Look on such things as friends, land, money, property, wife, and bequests as nothing but a dream or a magician's show lasting three or five days.	Look upon friends, lands, wealth, houses, wives, presents and such other good fortunes as a dream or a juggler's show, lasting three or five days.
10.3	यत्र यत्र भवेत्तृष्णा संसारं विद्धि तत्र वै। प्रौढवैराग्यमाश्रित्य वीततृष्णः सुखी भव॥	Where there is desire, there is the world. Be firm in non-attachment. Be free of desire. Be happy.	Wherever a desire occurs, see samsara in it. Establishing yourself in firm dispassion, be free of passion and happy.	Know wherever there is desire there is the world. Betaking yourself to firm non-attachment, go beyond desire and be happy.
10.4	तृष्णामात्रात्मको बन्धस्तन्नाशो मोक्ष उच्यते। भवासंसक्तिमात्रेण प्राप्तितुष्टिर्मुहुर्मुहुः॥	Bondage and desire are the same. Destroy desire and be free. Only by detaching from the world does one joyfully realize Self.	The essential nature of bondage is nothing other than desire, and its elimination is known as liberation. It is simply by not being attached to changing things that the everlasting joy of attainment is reached.	Bondage consists only in desire and its destruction is said to be liberation. By non-attachment to the world alone is attained constant joy of the realization (of the Self).
10.5	त्वमेकश्चेतनः शुद्धो जडं विश्वमसत्तथा। अविद्यापि न किञ्चित्सा का बुभुत्सा तथापि ते॥	You are One - Awareness itself. The universe is neither aware nor does it exist. Even ignorance is unreal. What is left to know?	You are one, conscious and pure, while all this is just inert non-being. Ignorance itself is nothing, so what need have you of desire to understand?	You are One, Pure Intelligence. The universe is non-intelligent and unreal. Ignorance also is not anything. Yet what desire to know can there be for you?
10.6	राज्यं सुताः कलत्राणि शरीराणि सुखानि च। संसक्तस्यापि नष्टानि तव जन्मनि जन्मनि॥	Attached as you have been to kingdoms, sons, wives, bodies, pleasures - life after life - still they are now lost forever.	Kingdoms, children, wives, bodies, pleasures - these have all been lost to you, life after life, attached to them though you were.	Kingdom, sons, wives, bodies and pleasures have been lost to you birth after birth, even though you were attached (to them).
10.7	अलमर्थेन कामेन सुकृतेनापि कर्मणा। एभ्यः संसारकान्तारे न विश्रान्तमभून्मनः॥	Prosperity, pleasure, pious deeds ... Enough! In the dreary forest of the world the mind finds no rest.	Enough of wealth, sensuality and good deeds. In the forest of samsara the mind has never found satisfaction in these.	Enough of prosperity, desire and pious deed. The mind did not find repose in these in the dreary forest of the world.
10.8	कृतं न कति जन्मानि कायेन मनसा गिरा। दुःखमायासदं कर्म तदद्याप्युपरम्यताम्॥	For how many lifetimes have you done hard and painful labor with body, mind and speech? It is time to stop.	How many births have you not done hard and painful labour with body, mind and speech. Now at last stop!	For how many births have you not done hard and painful work with your body, mind and speech! Therefore cease at least today.